• Transformation

    Gardening on an Ice-Age Glacier

    Garden transformation Part 14 – Soil, rocks and pebbles Before moving here I’d only had one other garden, it had beautiful black soil that your spade just sunk into, it was black gold.  On moving to our new garden however, we discovered that the soil is almost 50% stone. Not only does your spade not go in, but neither does your fork! The only way to dig our soil is with a mattock or a pick. Even when you’ve loosened it, trying to get your shovel in is still a challenge as it hits numerous rocks and pebbles. After hubby breaking the wooden handles on our existing pick and my…